Monday, March 05, 2007

Catch-up Stuff

Oh, in the name of all sanity, the things that are involved in moving are so complicated! Sorry I haven't been posting much. I've been quite overwhelmed with the stuff of moving. I am almost done painting, thank Christ. I have half a wall left to do in the dining room. I am exhausted!

Likewise, I haven't been doing much knitting, either. Our official move date is March 10. So, hopefully, within a week or so of that day, I will be chugging along again with knitting. I'd love to finish the socks that Pat taught us. I already missed the "gusset" lesson. :-( Plus, that baby blanket for my sister 'aint gonna knit itself.

About 2 weeks ago I broke my self-imposed yarn moratorium and bought some very special 100% linen yarn that was on 65%-off clearance somewhere. I can't even remember which website it was, or else I'd link you guys! It's Louet Euroflax Aberdeen Heathers. Seriously, $18-a-skein yarn for $6.25? I had to buy some. I intend on using it to make a couple of guest hand towels for the bathroom(s) (seeing that my new house now has 2.5 baths)! I got Milkweed (1 skein --- it was all they had), and 3 skeins each of Chamomile, and Lavender. But that's all I bought, I swear it! :-)

OK so I have the Knitting Pattern-A-Day Calendar on my desk at work. Today's pattern is the most disturbingly ugly, eye-assaulting thing I think I've ever seen on this calendar --- and I've been getting this calendar since January 2005. I will say that the quality and integrity of the patterns within this calendar have continually degraded over the last couple of years. Courtesy of my cell phone, so it's a little fuzzy. You'll probably thank me for the fuzziness once you get a gander at this atrocity. To see it with full-on clarity might induce vomiting:


Yeah. I know. Erm...sometimes you gotta say what the fuck? You know? I mean seriously. My God this is BAD. Ok so I don't know what's worse about this: the feathery, yellow collar on this sorry excuse for a garment or the fact that she's wearing it over a long-sleeve, black t-shirt. Or maybe the fact that it's every freakin' color in the universe? Or that because it's a motley, shapeless, flour sack that goes to the knees it is the single most unflattering garment ever designed for the female shape? I can't look at it anymore. What do you think? Discuss.


Oh, yeah, and? That yellow stuff? Yeah it's not just a collar. It's a freakin' HOOD. YES. A. HOOD. So that you have "the added option of pulling [it] over your head to resemble Goldilocks' hair." That's what it says. No, I am not joking. Here's a close-up, if you can handle it:




So, basically, if you want to look like Big Bird wearing something that looks like Walt Disney threw up on you, then your dreams have finally come true.

4 comments:

Marsha said...

Nice score on the linen yarn! I wouldn't mind getting some of that for myself.

I'm bummed to see your discussion of that Goldilocks pattern, since I was going to knit you one of those for Christmas. But now that you know all about it, I guess it wouldn't be a surprise... :)

Katie J said...

Wow, fugly doesn't begin to describe that thing.

I've been pretty good with my yarn diet, but I can understand how you can't pass up a deal like that. I found myself wondering if I could get some too and justify. I don't have the new house, though.

Congrats! We missed you at Tuesday night knit group!

Beth said...

$6.25 per skein for that linen yarn! You had to buy it. "Godilocks and the Three Triangles?" the name alone makes me want to vomit.

the nicole AMATO experience, now said...

GO FUG YOUR KNITTING